LWP Gender Publications

Last updated 19 February 2014

Holmes, Janet. 1998. Signalling gender identity through speech. Moderna Sprak 42(2).
122128.
Holmes, Janet. 1999. Sharing a laugh: Pragmatic aspects of humour and
gender in the workplace. Plenary paper. Paper presented at the New Zealand
Linguistics Society Conference, 24-26 November 1999, Massey University.
Holmes, Janet (ed.). 2000a. Gendered Speech in Social Context: Perspectives from Gown
& Town. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
Holmes, Janet. 2000b. Women at work: analysing womens talk in New Zealand
workplaces.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 22(2). 117.
Holmes, Janet. 2003a. Womens talk at the top. Boardroom: The Journal of the
Institute of Directors 2003(1).
Holmes, Janet. 2003b. How top women talk. Paanui: Ministry of Womens Affairs. 67.
Holmes, Janet. 2005a. Leadership talk: How do leaders do mentoring, and is
gender relevant? Journal of Pragmatics 37. 17791880.
Holmes, Janet. 2005b. Power and discourse at work: is gender relevant? In
Michelle Lazar (ed.), Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, 3160. London: Palgrave.
Holmes, Janet. 2005c. The glass ceiling - does talk contribute? In Colleen Mills &
Donald
Matheson (eds.), Communication at Work: Showcasing Communication Scholarship:
Publication of the Annual Meeting of the Australia New Zealand Communication.
http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/ANZCA/FullPapers.shtml.
Holmes, Janet. 2006a. Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace
Discourse. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Holmes, Janet. 2006b. Sharing a laugh: Pragmatic aspects of humour and
gender in the workplace. Journal of Pragmatics 38(1). 2650.
Holmes, Janet. 2007. Did anyone one feel disempowered by that? Gender,
leadership and politeness. Proceedings of IGALA 4 (DVD). Valencia: University of
Valencia.
Holmes, Janet. 2008a. Gender and leadership: Some socio-pragmatic
considerations. The Journal and Proceedings of GALE 2008 1(1). 416.
Holmes, Janet. 2008b. Gender, leadership and discourse in New Zealand
workplaces. Studies in Pragmatics 10. 83101.

Holmes, Janet. 2008c. Gendered discourse at work. Language and Linguistics

Compass 2(3). 478495.
Holmes, Janet. 2008d. Women talk too much. In Susan Blum (ed.), Making Sense of
Language:
Readings in Culture and Communication, 306310. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Holmes, Janet. 2008e. Women, men and leadership: constructing complex
identities through talk at work. Paper presented at the Scandinavian
Conference on Language and Gender, October 2008, Copenhagen.
Holmes, Janet. 2009a. Humour, power and gender in the workplace. In Nikolas
Coupland & Adam Jaworski (eds.), The New Sociolinguistics Reader, 631645.
London: Macmillan.
Holmes, Janet. 2009b. Is sex relevant in the ESL classroom? In Rakesh Bhanot
& Eva Illes (eds.), Best of Language Issues, 272278. London: London South Bank
University Press.
Holmes, Janet. 2009c. Men, masculinities and leadership: different discourse styles
at work. In
Pia Pichler & Eva Eppler (eds.), Gender and Spoken Interaction, 186210. London:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Holmes, Janet. 2010. Gender, leadership and discourse in New Zealand
workplaces. In Markus Bieswanger, Heiko Motschenbacher & Susanne
Muhleisen (eds.), Language in its Socio-Cultural Context, 85109. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang.
Holmes, Janet. 2011. Sex, lies and stereotypes: Four myths about language
and gender. Womens Studies Association New Zealand 32. 1315.
Holmes, Janet. 2013a. Humour in the workplace: Is gender relevant? Opening
plenary. Paper presented at the Northern Sydney Region Primary
Principals Conference, June 2013, Sydney, Australia.
Holmes, Janet. 2013b. Gendered talk at work: Interaction in eldercare
residencies and on building sites. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of
New Zealand Conference, November 2013, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch.
Holmes, Janet. 2013c. Gender and identity: Some sociopragmatic
considerations. Seminar for University of Malaya, December 2013. Kuala
Lumpur.
Holmes, Janet, Louise Burns, Meredith Marra, Maria Stubbe & Bernadette
Vine. 2003. Women managing discourse in the workplace. Women in Management
Review 18(8). 414424.

Holmes, Janet & Meredith Marra. 2002. Humour as a discursive boundary

marker in social interaction. In Anna Duszak (ed.), Us and Others: Social Identities
Across Languages, Discourses and Cultures, 377400. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.
Holmes, Janet & Meredith Marra. 2004. Relational practice in the workplace:
womens talk or gendered discourse? Language in Society 33(03). 377398.
doi:10.1017/S0047404504043039.
Holmes, Janet & Meredith Marra. 2005. Communication in a diverse
workplace: gender and identity. In Frank Sligo & Ralph Bathurst (eds.),
Communication in the New Zealand Workplace: Theory and Practice, 7182. Wellington:
Software Technology New Zealand Ltd.
Holmes, Janet & Meredith Marra. 2010a. Femininity, feminism and gendered
discourse. In Janet Holmes & Meredith Marra (eds.), Femininity, feminism and
gendered discourse, 118. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Holmes, Janet & Meredith Marra (eds.). 2010b. Femininity, Feminism and Gendered
Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Holmes, Janet, Meredith Marra & Louise Burns. 2001. Womens humour in the
workplace: A quantitative analysis. Australian Journal of Communication 28(1). 83
108.
Holmes, Janet & Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.). 2003. The Handbook of Language and
Gender. Oxford: Blackwell.
Holmes, Janet & Stephanie Schnurr. 2005. Politeness, humor and gender in the
workplace:
Negotiating norms and identifying contestation. Journal of Politeness Research
1(1). 121149.
Holmes, Janet & Stephanie Schnurr. 2006. Doing femininity at work: more
than just relational practice. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10(1). 3151.
Holmes, Janet, Robert Sigley & Agnes Terraschke. 2009. From chairman to
chairwoman to chairperson: Exploring the move from sexist usages to gender
neutrality. In Pam Peters, Peter Collins & Adam Smith (eds.), Grammar and
Beyond: Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English, 181202.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Holmes, Janet & Maria Stubbe. 1997. Good listeners: gender differences in
New Zealand conversation. Women and Language 20(2). 714.
Holmes, Janet & Maria Stubbe. 2003. Feminine workplaces: stereotype and
reality. In Janet Holmes & Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), The Handbook of Language and
Gender, 573599. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Marra, Meredith. 2013. Bros and dears: Learning to interact in gendered

workplaces. Paper presented at the ALANZ-ALAA Conference, November
2013, Victoria University of Wellington.
Marra, Meredith, Stephanie Schnurr & Janet Holmes. 2006. Effective
leadership in New Zealand workplaces: balancing gender and role. In Judith
Baxter & Allyson Jule (eds.), Speaking out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts, 240
260. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schnurr, Stephanie. 2005. Leadership, humour and gender: An analysis of workplace
discourse.
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Unpublished PhD thesis.
Schnurr, Stephanie. 2009. Leadership Discourse at Work: Interactions of Humour, Gender and
Workplace Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schnurr, Stephanie & Janet Holmes. 2009. Using humour to do masculinity at
work. In Neal R. Norrick & Delia Chiaro (eds.), Humor in Interaction, 101123.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Stubbe, Maria. 1998. Striking a balance: Language, gender and professional identity.
Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, 545556.
University of California: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Stubbe, Maria, Janet Holmes, Bernadette Vine & Meredith Marra. 2000. Forget
Mars and Venus, lets get back to earth: Challenging stereotypes in the
workplace. In Janet Holmes (ed.), Gendered Speech in Social Context: Perspectives from
Town & Gown, 231258. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
Vine, Bernadette, Susan Kell, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes. 2009.
Boundary-marking humour: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in
the workplace. In Neal R. Norrick & Delia Chiaro (eds.), Humor in Interaction, 125
139. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.